Yet another European record company that has also released a CD from Gene’s old album catalog is REAL GONE JAZZ, also out of the UK. This company has gone and done AVID JAZZ one better by releasing a four CD set containing seven Krupa albums!

Although of the seven, three are again the ones with Buddy Rich that have previously been available on CD from Verve; “Krupa & Rich”, “The Drum Battle” and “Burnin’ Beat”. A fourth album, “Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements”, has also been previously released by Verve as well.

Continuing with the remaining three, “Big Noise” was released in Japan a number of years back and available in the states as an import and “Swingin’ With”,  a compilation album of 78 sides Gene cut for RCA/Victor in both the early thirties and again in the fifties, has had the tracks included on the Krupa Chronological Classics CDs #754 and #1359.

So, for this package, that technically only leaves “Percussion King” as the sole album out of this seven album issue to feature its CD debut — But I’m not complaining!